Gubra is on an exciting journey and looking for an experienced and pragmatic Engineering Director to lead our Software and Platform Engineering function. This role is responsible for re-building and scaling a high-performing engineering organization that enables scientific innovation through robust digital platforms.
You will lead Engineering Managers and senior engineers while shaping the architectural direction, platform strategy, and engineering culture across cloud and on-premise environments.
This is a strategic Technology leadership role with hands-on involvement when needed. This role requires you to have strong technical credibility, modern engineering mindset, and the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural sustainability.
You will report directly to the CTO and lead a Software and Platform Engineering function primarily located in Denmark.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coach Engineering Managers and senior engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical craftsmanship.
- Define and drive modern software and platform engineering practices, ensuring excellence in quality, security, reliability, and DevSecOps.
- Own the architectural direction across applications, integrations, APIs, and platform infrastructure, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability in a pragmatic and cost-conscious manner.
- Establish scalable deployment strategies across Cloud and on-prem environments, driving adoption of a robust CI/CD ecosystem.
- Lead legacy modernization initiatives, transitioning toward modern integration architectures with a strong buy-vs-build mindset.
- Collaborate closely with Research Scientists, Product Owners, and cross-functional teams to enable data-driven research solution development.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable, value-driven technical solutions.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of experience in software / platform engineering.
- Minimum 5 years in Engineering Manager or senior Engineering Leadership roles.
- Strong understanding of modern software and platform engineering practices (DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native, containerization and orchestration).
- Solid architectural capabilities with understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Proven experience modernizing legacy systems and implementing API- and event-driven integrations.
- Experience developing or implementing computationally intensive or data-heavy systems is a plus.
- Experience from Biotech or Life Science, collaborating with Data Scientists or scientific teams is a plus.
Application details
Please apply as soon as possible and no later than March 19th, 2026, by uploading your resumé on our website. We review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and encourage early submissions.
Questions regarding role-specific details will be addressed during the interview.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.
About Gubra
Gubra is a disease-agnostic techbio company specialized in peptide-based drug discovery and preclinical contract research services striving for excellence at all levels. We insist on doing things efficiently – and often differently - to reach the results we aim for. Our vision is to become leaders in the path towards a more sustainable and healthier world. We do that by facilitating the discovery of new medicine, and by acting and inspiring others to fight the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises.
Gubra’s activities are focused on the early stages of drug development and are organised in two main highly synergistic business areas: Biotech and CRO Services. We generate our revenue by performing research for life science companies as well as by partnering projects from our discovery and development pipeline.
Our therapeutic focus is within metabolic and fibrotic diseases, and we specialize in in vivo pharmacology, ex vivo assays, drug profiling, histology, stereology and whole brain and organ imaging. In addition, we offer a full palette of advanced transcriptomics. Our ML/AI-driven peptide drug discovery platform streaMLine enables us to rapidly develop a peptide hit into a non-clinical candidate ready for development. Through a constant focus on high quality, scientific excellence, speed, and solid teamwork we have established ourselves as a highly professional and competent partner in the market.
People are our greatest asset, and our team consists of around 300 employees. The mix of people from different cultures and educational backgrounds combined with our entrepreneurial mindset have greatly impacted our working environment, which is characterized by entrepreneurial drive, scientific curiosity, and teamwork – we join forces!
